Paul Geier: In His Footsteps,
Flowers
Paul
Geier's mother died when he was 22 and his sister Jeanne
Kelly was 17.
"Paul took good care of me throughout some really
tough times," she wrote in an e-mail message from
London.
"I really wasn't in the mood to go to my prom, but he
encouraged me, bought me the dress, came home early from
work to see me, and gave me spending money because he
wanted me to try to be happy! I know it might sound silly
since it was so long ago, but how many 22-year-olds do
that for their sisters?"
Another sister, Kathy Healy, remembers how her
brother's even temper got the family through a boat trip
to Manhattan, when their 39-foot trawler ran out of gas
and hit rough seas. "The refrigerator and the microwave
fell over," she said. "He kept my husband calm."
He used to bicycle from his home in Farmingdale to
Massapequa, arriving at her door on weekends.
"Since October, I have a pansy growing right on the
doorstep, through the snow and everything," she said. "It
stayed there. I always feel like it's a sign."
Mr. Geier, 36, who leaves a wife and two young
daughters, was one of two brokers not fired from his
22-person desk at eSpeed the Friday before Sept. 11, Ms.
Healy said.
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